to get broody hens?

Bantams

The Speckled Sussex would be a excellent choice.

Heritage breed bantams. Because they never gained traction for egg or meat production they were never "improved" to reduce broodiness. Nankins are most notable for this and at one time we're kept just for brooding eggs of all types.

The egg breeds, mediterranean, are the least likely to go broody. The dual purpose hit or miss. But when you get one hen that goes broody she most likely will go broody each laying season.

Colonel Sanders.

We've had a few Silkies through the years.

They were super broody.

I bred a Cornish hen to a centipede trying to get more legs but that wasn’t the answer. I couldn’t catch them.

Another one known for that.

Silkies are probably better than Nankins. Nankins will hit the trees if left to free range, silkies not so much.

I like my Orpington’s

In no particular order…Hardee’s, Bojangles, and even get a craving for KFC.

Traditional Malaysian Seramas are what I use to hatch expensive eggs, that I don't artificially incubate. I only keep breeders in Seramas from stock that was naturally hatched. I've used Seramas to hatch chicken, pheasant, peafowl, turkey, duck and pigeon eggs.

Silkies, gamefowl and bantam cochins generally do a good job too.

Keith

American gamefowl

I have had a couple of buff Orpingtons go broody.

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calmest hens I have ever had. You could pick them up. Big brown eggs

barr rock always for us

the buff rocks i had years ago would get broody at the drop of a hat

I have a Colombian Wyandotte that is near always broody.

Rhode Island Reds, we averaged close to 250 eggs a year out of them. They get very broody. Very mild manner birds and easy keepers.